This moderate and sane "separate but equal" solution to poorly
funded southern black schools in the 1950s can prevail almost a
century after the Warren court's wrongheaded 1954 Brown v. Board
of Education extremist solution (like using an atom bomb to
demolish an obsolete building). It did achieve fair funding but
by the reckless experiment of racially integrating all schools,
then the nation as a whole, launching a century of racial
conflict. A recent book-length report on public resistance to
racial integration, written by two pro-integration authors, one
white and the other black, shows that four decades of forced
integration have failed. The authors conclude it was idealistic
but wholly unrealistic (Leonard Steinhorn and Barbara Diggs-
Brown, By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and
the Reality of Race). The Brown v. Board blunder is promptly
reversed in the new separatist America.